Revisiting a functional form for the Lorenz curve

Economics Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 249-252

  Sarabia, José María ^a   Prieto, Faustino ^a   Sarabia, María ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Donaldson Weymark Kakwani and Pietra inequality indices; Lorenz ordering; Mixture

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950959046     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2010.01.038     Document Type: Article

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